Hanging Garden

an elusive garden upturned - an Installation by PLANT Architect Inc.

PLANT has made a studio practice centered around putting a lens on the landscape to heighten the sensual experience and the understanding of the landscapes we inhabit. We use many means including framing, sequencing, contrasting, pointing, shifting scale, and occupying. Sometimes, we just need to turn it upside down to see it anew, The Hanging Garden does just that.

PLANT Architect Inc. is a collaborative practice that branches into architecture, landscape, research, and design – with a special focus on creating work at the intersections of art, landscape, and built form. Our studio operates across spatial scales and disciplinary borders to reveal a site’s history and build important connections between people, places, and ideas.

The Nathan Phillips Square Revitalization, by PLANT Architect Inc. and Perkins+Will Canada in Joint Venture, received a 2016 Governor General’s Medal in Architecture.

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The Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition is Canada's largest, longest running juried contemporary outdoor art fair. Founded in 1961, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition was established to nurture artistic excellence and artists’ entrepreneurial spirit, and to showcase contemporary art to the general public. This free public event showcases works by over 320 contemporary visual artists and makers, ranging in medium from painting, photography, and mixed media to jewellery and ceramics, and attracts 100,000 visitors each year to Nathan Phillips Square.